Fewer than a dozen companies secured most of the benefit under Defence’s Global Supply Chain Program in its first 15 years, according to an independent review kept under wraps...
Advanced Manufacturing
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Sitting on a tarmac up in Bowen, Queensland is Australia’s first fully designed and manufactured rocket, an incredible feat of domestic innovation, engineering and logistics eight years in the...
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The establishment of a corporation in charge of the Albanese government’s $15 billion manufacturing fund is being audited, with an outside firm quietly tapped to assist the federal audit...
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Regional CleanTech and manufacturing investment will be coordinated through a single federal government agency after legislation to create the Net Zero Economy Authority passed the Senate. The bill passed...
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A seven-member advisory group has been set up by the federal government to advise on industry policy for decarbonising iron, steel, alumina and aluminium production. The board, which met...
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Budding Australian drone manufacturers AMSL Aero, Boresight and Grabba Technologies have shared $6.6 million in Defence production contracts following the success of their prototypes under the Advanced Strategic Capabilities...
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Melbourne-founded brain-computer interface company Synchron is expecting to complete its early feasibility study by the end of this year, but will need more capital to secure regulatory approval in...
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers is threading a needle between bold public investments that establish Australia’s foothold in a churning global economy and what critics say could easily devolve into protectionism...
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Melbourne-based AIM Defence has beaten 14 anti-drone technology local and international companies to win CA$1 million (A$1.1 million) dollars from the Canadian Army. During a three-week contest that ended...
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Australian clay will be used as the base material for a lower carbon concrete following a successful trial between construction materials giant Boral and CleanTech company Calix. As the...
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Forging a modern manufacturing sector with highly skilled jobs will have a “profound social and democratic effect”, the new Future Made in Australia assistant minister has declared. In his...
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US biotech giant Pfizer will ramp up manufacturing of antimicrobials and precision medicines from its Melbourne site to combat the rising threat of superbugs after tipping $150 million into...
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The independent entity steering the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund has racked up $8.7 million in expenses before making a single investment, as it approaches a one-year anniversary with...
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Australia’s budding hydrogen industry will bypass local innovation for its supply chains if content requirements aren’t part of the government’s Future Made in Australia policy, green hydrogen startup Hysata...